Fungiastrea crespoi ( Felix, 1891 )

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 183-184

Fungiastrea crespoi ( Felix, 1891)

Pl. 18, fig. 3

*1891 Thamnastrea Crespoi nov. sp.: Felix, p. 146, pl. 22, fig. 5.

?1995 Fungiastrea ? brevipes ( Stoliczka 1873) : Löser & Raeder, p. 48.

v1996 Fungiastraea crespoi ( Felix, 1891) : Baron-Szabo, in Baron-Szabo & Steuber, p. 27, pl. 16, figs 2, 3.

v1997 Fungiastraea crespoi ( Felix, 1891) : Sanders & Baron-Szabo, p. 74, pl. 21, fig. 8 (non fig. 7).

v1997 Fungiastrea crespoi ( Felix, 1891) : Baron-Szabo, p. 87, pl. 16, fig. 3.

v2001 Fungastrea crespoi ( Felix, 1891) : Baron-Szabo, p. 265, fig. 2 G.

2002 Fungiastrea crespoi ( Felix 1891) : Löser et al., p. 311 (older synonmys cited therein).

v2002 Fungastrea crespoi ( Felix, 1891) : Baron-Szabo, p. 147, pl. 107, figs 2, 4.

v2003 Fungastrea crespoi ( Felix, 1891) : Baron-Szabo et al., p. 201, pl. 38, fig. 1.

Dimensions. c-c= 4–8 mm; s/mm=10–15/5.

Description. The corallum is massive-lamellar and thamnasterioid. Septa are long, wavy, confluent, nearly equal in thickness, irregularly perforated, with rounded or spiniform granules and pennulae laterally. The columella is spongy-papillose. A small number of synapticulae are irregularly distributed. The endotheca is made of thin tabulate and slightly arched dissepiments.

Type locality of species. Barremian of Mexico (Tehuacan, San Antonia de las Salinas) .

Distribution. Barremian of Mexico (Tehuacan), Barremian-Aptian of Trinidad and Tobago, Upper Barremian of Bulgaria, Lower Aptian of Austria, Germany, and Greece, Upper Aptian-Upper Albian of Iran, Aptian and Middle Albian of Mexico (Sonora), Cenomanian of northwestern Germany, Upper Turonian- Coniacian of Austria, Middle-Upper Maastrichtian of the UAE / Oman border region.